Best Sensitive Data Discovery Tools
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What are Sensitive Data Discovery Tools?
Sensitive data discovery tools are software solutions designed to help organizations identify, classify, and protect sensitive information across their data environments. These tools scan databases, file systems, cloud storage, and applications to locate sensitive data such as personally identifiable information (PII), financial records, healthcare data, or intellectual property. By using advanced algorithms and pattern recognition, sensitive data discovery tools can automatically flag data that is at risk of exposure or non-compliance with regulations such as GDPR, HIPAA, or CCPA. They often provide visualization and reporting features, allowing organizations to see where sensitive data resides and assess the level of risk. These tools are crucial for ensuring data security, privacy compliance, and mitigating the risk of data breaches. Compare and read user reviews of the best Sensitive Data Discovery tools currently available using the table below. This list is updated regularly.
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Satori
Satori
Satori is a Data Security Platform (DSP) that enables self-service data and analytics. Unlike the traditional manual data access process, with Satori, users have a personal data portal where they can see all available datasets and gain immediate access to them. Satori’s DSP dynamically applies the appropriate security and access policies, and the users get secure data access in seconds instead of weeks. Satori’s comprehensive DSP manages access, permissions, security, and compliance policies - all from a single console. Satori continuously discovers sensitive data across data stores and dynamically tracks data usage while applying relevant security policies. Satori enables data teams to scale effective data usage across the organization while meeting all data security and compliance requirements. -
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Safetica
Safetica
Safetica Intelligent Data Security protects sensitive enterprise data wherever your team uses it. With advanced data discovery, context-aware classification, proactive threat prevention and adaptive security, Safetica provides comprehensive visibility and control over your data. ✔️ Discover what to protect: Precisely locate personally identifiable information, intellectual property, financials, and more wherever it is used across the enterprise, cloud, and endpoint devices. ✔️ Prevent threats: Understand and mitigate risky behavior with automatic detection of suspicious file access, email communication and web browsing. Get the alerts you need to proactively uncover risk and prevent data breaches. ✔️ Keep your data safe: Intercept unauthorized exposure of sensitive personal data, trade secrets and intellectual property. ✔️ Work smarter: Help teams work, with in-moment data handling cues as they access and share sensitive information. -
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Titaniam
Titaniam
Titaniam provides enterprises and SaaS vendors with a full suite of data security/privacy controls in a single, enterprise grade solution. This includes highly advanced options such as encryption-in-use that enables encrypted search and analytics without decryption, and also traditional controls such as tokenization, masking, various types of encryption, and anonymization. Titaniam also offers BYOK/HYOK (bring/hold your own key) for data owners to control the security of their data. If attacked, Titaniam minimizes regulatory overhead by providing evidence that sensitive data retained encryption. Titaniam’s interoperable modules can be combined to support hundreds of architectures across multiple clouds, on-prem, and hybrid environments. Titaniam provides the equivalent of 3+ categories of solutions making it the most effective, and economical solution in the market. Titaniam is featured by Gartner, IDC, and TAG Cyber and has won coveted industry awards e.g. SINET16 and at RSAC2022. -
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K2View
K2View
At K2View, we believe that every enterprise should be able to leverage its data to become as disruptive and agile as the best companies in its industry. We make this possible through our patented Data Product Platform, which creates and manages a complete and compliant dataset for every business entity – on demand, and in real time. The dataset is always in sync with its underlying sources, adapts to changes in the source structures, and is instantly accessible to any authorized data consumer. Data Product Platform fuels many operational use cases, including customer 360, data masking and tokenization, test data management, data migration, legacy application modernization, data pipelining and more – to deliver business outcomes in less than half the time, and at half the cost, of any other alternative. The platform inherently supports modern data architectures – data mesh, data fabric, and data hub – and deploys in cloud, on-premise, or hybrid environments. -
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OneTrust Privacy Automation
OneTrust
Go beyond compliance and build trust through transparency, choice, and control. People demand greater control of their data, unlocking an opportunity for organizations to use these moments to build trust and deliver more valuable experiences. We provide privacy and data governance automation to help organizations better understand their data across the business, meet regulatory requirements, and operationalize risk mitigation to provide transparency and choice to individuals. Achieve data privacy compliance faster and build trust in your organization. Our platform helps break down silos across processes, workflows, and teams to operationalize regulatory compliance and enable trusted data use. Build proactive privacy programs rooted in global best practices, not reactive to individual regulations. Gain visibility into unknown risks to drive mitigation and risk-based decision making. Respect individual choice and embed privacy and security by default into the data lifecycle. -
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SailPoint
SailPoint Technologies
You can’t do business without technology and you can’t securely access technology without identity security. In today’s era of “work from anywhere”, managing and governing access for every digital identity is critical to the protection of your business and the data that it runs on. Only SailPoint Identity Security can help you enable your business and manage the cyber risk associated with the explosion of technology access in the cloud enterprise – ensuring each worker has the right access to do their job – no more, no less. Gain unmatched visibility and intelligence while automating and accelerating the management of all user identities, entitlements, systems, data and cloud services. Automate, manage and govern access in real-time, with AI-enhanced visibility and controls. Enable business to run with speed, security and scale in a cloud-critical, threat-intensive world. -
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Aparavi
Aparavi
Aparavi is the data intelligence and automation platform that empowers organizations to control and exploit their data without complexity. Aparavi addresses customer use cases including lowering data costs, reducing risk, and providing greater insight from data that enables automated data governance and compliance, data privacy, data retention, and open secure access for data analytics, and machine learning. > Know Your Data, Trust it & Use it > Crush Costs by 8% - 40% across all your data infrastructure > Exploit Data Value Infinitely to create new revenue streams and business advantage > Reduce Data Footprint by 6 - 46% and expedite your company’s environmental carbon footprint plan > Mitigate Data Risk NowStarting Price: $80 per TB per month -
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Accelario
Accelario
Take the load off of DevOps and eliminate privacy concerns by giving your teams full data autonomy and independence via an easy-to-use self-service portal. Simplify access, eliminate data roadblocks and speed up provisioning for dev, testing, data analysts and more. Accelario Continuous DataOps Platform is a one-stop-shop for handling all of your data needs. Eliminate DevOps bottlenecks and give your teams the high-quality, privacy-compliant data they need. The platform’s four distinct modules are available as stand-alone solutions or as a holistic, comprehensive DataOps management platform. Existing data provisioning solutions can’t keep up with agile demands for continuous, independent access to fresh, privacy-compliant data in autonomous environments. Teams can meet agile demands for fast, frequent deliveries with a comprehensive, one-stop-shop for self-provisioning privacy-compliant high-quality data in their very own environments.Starting Price: $0 Free Forever Up to 10GB -
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Data Rover
Data Rover
Data Rover is an Advanced User Data and Security Management for any Data-Driven Organisation. A single solution for Infrastructure and Security managers that allows data users to explore, manage, process, and protect their data effectively and efficiently, by simultaneously addressing the two primary needs related to the use of data: Cyber Security and Data Management. Data Rover plays a key role in business asset protection and corporate data management policy definition. Data Analytics Check for security flaws and eliminate issues. Simplify the management of permissions. File Auditor It gives you the proof that something was done. Right or Wrong it's not important - JUST the FACTS. Dark Data Makes work faster and safer by optimising the storage resources usage and reducing costs. Involve the users in data management so they can contribute in keeping the storage systems clean and efficient. Advanced Data Exchange Share business data in/out of the company SAFELY. -
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Immuta
Immuta
Immuta is the market leader in secure Data Access, providing data teams one universal platform to control access to analytical data sets in the cloud. Only Immuta can automate access to data by discovering, securing, and monitoring data. Data-driven organizations around the world trust Immuta to speed time to data, safely share more data with more users, and mitigate the risk of data leaks and breaches. Founded in 2015, Immuta is headquartered in Boston, MA. Immuta is the fastest way for algorithm-driven enterprises to accelerate the development and control of machine learning and advanced analytics. The company's hyperscale data management platform provides data scientists with rapid, personalized data access to dramatically improve the creation, deployment and auditability of machine learning and AI. -
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MinerEye DataTracker
MinerEye
MinerEye’s DataTracker enables organizations to overcome the information governance and protection challenge. It automatically scans, indexes, analyzes, virtually labels and categorizes every piece of unstructured and dark data contained in the organization’s data repositories. With proprietary Interpretive AI™, machine learning, and computer vision, the solution locates relevant files out of the billions that are stored, accurately evaluates them, qualifies them by significance and purpose, and automatically sends alerts with next best action recommendations in cases of conflicts, duplications, or potential violations. This way, data protection is profoundly enhanced while risk and operational costs are reduced.Starting Price: $2000/1TB/month -
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Dataedo
Dataedo
Discover, document and manage your metadata. Dataedo is equipped with multiple automated metadata scanners that connect to various database technologies, extract data structures and metadata, and load them into the metadata repository. With a few clicks, build a catalog of your data and describe each element. Decrypt table and column names with business-friendly aliases, provide meaning and purpose of data assets with descriptions and user-defined custom fields. Use sample data to learn what data is stored in your data assets. Understand the data better before using it and make sure that the data is good quality. Ensure high data quality with data profiling. Democratize access to knowledge about data. Build data literacy, democratize data and empower everyone in your organization to make better use of your data with a lightweight on-premises data catalog. Boost data literacy through a data catalog.Starting Price: $49 per month -
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Normalyze
Normalyze
Our agentless data discovery and scanning platform is easy to connect to any cloud account (AWS, Azure and GCP). There is nothing for you to deploy or manage. We support all native cloud data stores, structured or unstructured, across all three clouds. Normalyze scans both structured and unstructured data within your cloud accounts and only collects metadata to add to the Normalyze graph. No sensitive data is collected at any point during scanning. Display a graph of access and trust relationships that includes deep context with fine-grained process names, data store fingerprints, IAM roles and policies in real-time. Quickly locate all data stores containing sensitive data, find all-access paths, and score potential breach paths based on sensitivity, volume, and permissions to show all breaches waiting to happen. Categorize and identify sensitive data-based industry profiles such as PCI, HIPAA, GDPR, etc.Starting Price: $14,995 per year -
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Microsoft Purview Information Protection
Microsoft
Understand what data is sensitive and business-critical, then manage and protect it across your environment. Experience built-in labeling and information protection in Microsoft 365 apps and services. Get accurate classification with AI-powered classifiers, exact data matches, and other capabilities. Configure and manage policies and view analytics across on-premises file shares, Microsoft 365 apps and services, and desktop and mobile devices in one place. Extend a consistent protection experience to popular non-Microsoft apps and services with an SDK. Enable discovery and protection of sensitive data across your digital estate, including Microsoft 365 and Azure clouds; on-premises, hybrid, and third-party clouds; and SaaS apps. Scan across data at rest and in use to classify it across on-premises file shares, SharePoint, OneDrive, Exchange, Microsoft Teams, endpoints, and non-Microsoft cloud apps.Starting Price: $12 per month -
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RecordPoint
RecordPoint
The RecordPoint Data Trust platform helps highly regulated organizations manage records and data throughout their lifecycle, regardless of system. The customizable platform is comprised of records management and data lineage tools that work together to give you full context of your data. RecordPoint’s capabilities span six core areas, which are the essential building blocks for solid data governance - data inventory, categorization, records management, privacy, minimization, and migration. -
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Protegrity
Protegrity
Our platform allows businesses to use data—including its application in advanced analytics, machine learning, and AI—to do great things without worrying about putting customers, employees, or intellectual property at risk. The Protegrity Data Protection Platform doesn't just secure data—it simultaneously classifies and discovers data while protecting it. You can't protect what you don't know you have. Our platform first classifies data, allowing users to categorize the type of data that can mostly be in the public domain. With those classifications established, the platform then leverages machine learning algorithms to discover that type of data. Classification and discovery finds the data that needs to be protected. Whether encrypting, tokenizing, or applying privacy methods, the platform secures the data behind the many operational systems that drive the day-to-day functions of business, as well as the analytical systems behind decision-making. -
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BigID
BigID
BigID is data visibility and control for all types of data, everywhere. Reimagine data management for privacy, security, and governance across your entire data landscape. With BigID, you can automatically discover and manage personal and sensitive data – and take action for privacy, protection, and perspective. BigID uses advanced machine learning and data intelligence to help enterprises better manage and protect their customer & sensitive data, meet data privacy and protection regulations, and leverage unmatched coverage for all data across all data stores. 2 -
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Take charge of your sensitive data with ManageEngine DataSecurity Plus. Get a snapshot of recent user activity, file activity, and access trends. Know the essential four Ws for every access: Who accessed what, when, and from where. Focus on events that matter most, such as sudden permission changes, file deletions, and renaming events. Identify the most active users, most accessed files, and most modified files within your file server. rigger instant alerts whenever there's sudden spikes in file or folder access or modification events. Get real-time notifications whenever there's multiple failed access attempts to critical files. Monitor changes made to sensitive files after business hours. Selectively monitor critical files, folders, shares, and user activities. Get real-time alerts whenever unauthorized modifications are made to critical files. Spot privilege misuse and unusual activity by configuring threshold-based alerts to monitor user-generated events.Starting Price: $745 per year
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HushHush Data Masking
HushHush
Today’s businesses face significant punishment if they do not meet the ever-increasing privacy requirements of both regulators and the public. Vendors need to keep abreast by adding new algorithms to protect sensitive data such as PII and PHI. HushHush stays at the forefront of privacy protection (Patents: US9886593, US20150324607A1, US10339341) with its PII data discovery and anonymization tool workbench (also known as data de-identification, data masking, and obfuscation software). It helps you find your and your customer's sensitive data, classify it, anonymize it, and comply with GDPR, CCPA, HIPAA / HITECH, and GLBA requirements. Use a collection of rule-based atomic add-on anonymization components to configure comprehensive and secure data anonymization solutions. HushHush components are out-of-the box solutions designed to anonymize both direct identifiers (SSN, credit cards, names, addresses, phone numbers, etc.) as well as indirect identifiers, with both fixed algorithms. -
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N-able Risk Intelligence
N-able
Your customers recognize the importance of security, but they often don't realize the urgency until they see something tangible. N-able™ Risk Intelligence makes it concrete by assigning value to your data vulnerability, helping you build a strong business case for data protection and triage the most important problems to tackle. Help ensure that only authorized individuals can access sensitive data. Safeguard sensitive personal data from attack. View reports on the potential financial impact of your at-risk data. Locate security holes in your systems. Protect credit card data and help ensure PCI DSS compliance. Sensitive data left exposed on systems poses a great risk to your customers. Often, companies amass large amounts of sensitive personally identifiable information (PII), including social security numbers, driver's license numbers, credit card information, and more in dispersed persistent storage. -
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Fasoo Data Radar
Fasoo
Fasoo Data Radar (FDR) is a data discovery and classification solution that helps organizations locate, analyze, and manage sensitive unstructured data across on-premise servers, cloud storage, and endpoints. It scans and classifies files based on keywords, regex patterns, file formats, and other predefined policies, ensuring organizations maintain control over critical information. With real-time monitoring and centralized policy enforcement, FDR enhances data security by identifying risks, preventing unauthorized access, and assisting with compliance requirements such as GDPR, HIPAA, and CCPA. Its integration with enterprise security frameworks allows organizations to apply consistent data protection policies while improving operation workflows. By automating data classification and governance, FDR increases efficiency and enhances data visibility for security and compliance management. -
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Netwrix Privilege Secure for Access Management enables secure, task-based administrative access delivered just-in-time and with just-enough privilege. Reduce opportunity for lateral movement attacks through privileged account reduction. With Netwrix Privilege Secure for Access Management, organizations are empowered to reduce their risk footprint through a task-based approach to Privileged Access Management. Netwrix Privilege Secure for Access Management provides Administrators the exact level of privileges needed, exactly when they’re needed, for only as long as they’re needed, and returns the environment to a no-access-by-default state, immediately upon completion. Kill standing privilege by eliminating standing privilege. Instead, create temporary accounts with just enough access to perform the task at hand and remove them when the job is complete.
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Netwrix Data Classification
Netwrix
Does your organization’s ever-growing data give you a headache? Netwrix Data Classification solves your data-related challenges, such as mitigating the risk of data breaches, realizing the full value of your content, increasing employee productivity and passing compliance audits with less effort. Find sensitive content, such as financial data, medical records and other PII, both on premises and in the cloud. Automatically quarantine critical or sensitive data stored in unsecure locations or accessible by large groups of users to minimize its exposure until you can make a thoughtful remediation decision. Gain a better understanding of data patterns specific to your organization. With compound term processing and statistical analysis, you’ll get more relevant results than by relying on keywords and semantic analysis. Kick off your discovery in minutes with out-of-the-box rules that identify data protected by GDPR, PCI DSS, HIPAA and other regulations. -
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PHEMI Health DataLab
PHEMI Systems
The PHEMI Trustworthy Health DataLab is a unique, cloud-based, integrated big data management system that allows healthcare organizations to enhance innovation and generate value from healthcare data by simplifying the ingestion and de-identification of data with NSA/military-grade governance, privacy, and security built-in. Conventional products simply lock down data, PHEMI goes further, solving privacy and security challenges and addressing the urgent need to secure, govern, curate, and control access to privacy-sensitive personal healthcare information (PHI). This improves data sharing and collaboration inside and outside of an enterprise—without compromising the privacy of sensitive information or increasing administrative burden. PHEMI Trustworthy Health DataLab can scale to any size of organization, is easy to deploy and manage, connects to hundreds of data sources, and integrates with popular data science and business analysis tools. -
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TCS MasterCraft DataPlus
Tata Consultancy Services
The users of data management software are primarily from enterprise business teams. This requires the data management software to be highly user-friendly, automated and intelligent. Additionally, data management activities must adhere to various industry-specific and data protection related regulatory requirements. Further, data must be adequate, accurate, consistent, of high quality and securely accessible so that business teams can make informed and data-driven strategic business decisons. Enables an integrated approach for data privacy, data quality management, test data management, data analytics and data modeling. Efficiently addresses growing volumes of data efficiently, through service engine-based architecture. Handles niche data processing requirements, beyond out of box functionality, through a user-defined function framework and python adapter. Provides a lean layer of governance surrounding data privacy and data quality management. -
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Data443 Global Privacy Manager
Data443
We make it possible for retailers to champion their customers’ privacy rights while maintaining conversion and simplifying SAR processing. Make your privacy settings the new standard for user experience and customer service. Give your customers clear access to easy-to-understand settings. Give customers a one-stop location for all their privacy needs. Provide clear, accurate explanations of the data you collect and how it is used. Earn increased trust in return. All-or-nothing consent doesn’t benefit you or your customers. Allowing customers to opt-in or out of specific data collection gives them more control and improves your conversion rates. Provide an easy-to-understand report that allows customers to see what data you’ve collected, how it’s being used, and that it’s being protected properly. Enhance your customers’ privacy experience with rapid responses to Subject Access Requests (SARs) while simplifying processing for your team.Starting Price: $225 per month -
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SDM manages structured data over its entire lifecycle. Providing data discovery, insight, protection, and management while reducing TCO of application infrastructure. Discover data, document it, and act on it. Structured Data Manager offers the out-of-the-box discovery of sensitive data. Manage and protect privacy throughout the lifecycle of data. Protection doesn’t have to limit accessibility. Structured Data Manager discovers and protects sensitive data, preserves its business value, and controls database growth. Scan for personal and sensitive data in databases, classify your data, and generate remediation processes.
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Fasoo AI-R Privacy
Fasoo
Fasoo AI-R Privacy is an AI-driven data privacy solution that helps organizations accurately locate, classify, and protect sensitive personal data across unstructured formats. Using advanced deep learning and natural language processing (NLP), the solution interprets context to detect personally identifiable information (PII) and apply automated masking or redaction based on predefined policies. Unlike traditional tools that rely on static pattern matching, Fasoo AI-R Privacy uses transformer-based models to understand how data is used within sentences, improving accuracy and reducing false positives. It’s especially effective for complex or hidden PII in free-text content, scanned files, and mixed data types. This solution is ideal for industries handling large volumes of personal data—such as healthcare, finance, and the public sector—where compliance with data protection laws is essential. -
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Onna
Reveal
Connect and search across an ever-growing list of cloud platforms with Onna, a real-time search solution. Onna assists users in accessing eDiscovery and finding high-value items across legal departments. Onna provides users with reporting, document sharing, collaborating, compliance managing, and more. Onna also integrates well with different data sources like Gmail, DropBox, and Confluence. -
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DataSunrise Database Security
DataSunrise
Data-Centric high-performance database security software. Regulatory Compliance with SOX, HIPAA, GDPR, PCI DSS and other privacy laws and standards. Hybrid and Multi-Cloud Database Security Proxy on AWS, Azure, Google and On-Prem. Sensitive and PII data auditing, discovery and active protection. Data Auditing enables real-time tracking of user actions and changes made to data and databases to ensure compliance-ready environment, increased visibility. Database Firewall, role based & location aware Data Access Control & Protection. Secure corporate databases in cloud & on-prem against hostile, negligent actions. Secures sensitive data in development and testing environments; Encryption; completely eliminates the possibility to reverse engineer the masked data. Real-time role and location based data masking of production data. Prevents exposure of sensitive privacy data while production data is not changed physically.